Structure of Essential English Essential English
Units Unit 1 focuses on students comprehending and responding to the ideas and information presented in texts drawn from a range of contexts. Students are taught a variety of strategies to assist comprehension. They read, view and listen to texts to connect, …
Structure of Essential English | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Rationale/Aims Essential English
Rationale Essential English focuses on consolidating and refining the skills and knowledge needed by students to become competent, confident and engaged users of English in many contemporary contexts including everyday, community, social, further education, …
Rationale/Aims | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Representation of General capabilities Essential English
General capabilities covered in Essential English include: Literacy, Numeracy, Information and communication technology (ICT) capability, Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social capability, Ethical understanding and Intercultural understanding. Literacy Literacy …
Representation of General capabilities | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Texts Essential English
Teachers will use an array of material in class. Texts include literary texts, fiction and non-fiction, media texts, everyday texts, and workplace texts, from increasingly complex and unfamiliar settings, ranging from the everyday language of personal …
Texts | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2 Essential English
Unit 2 focuses on interpreting ideas and arguments in a range of texts and contexts. By analysing text structures and language features and identifying the ideas, arguments and values expressed, students make inferences about the purposes and the intended …
Unit 2 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1 Essential English
Unit 1 focuses on students comprehending and responding to the ideas and information presented in texts drawn from a range of contexts. Students are taught a variety of strategies to assist comprehension. They read, view and listen to texts to connect, …
Unit 1 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 4 Essential English
Unit 4 focuses on community, local or global issues and ideas presented in texts and on developing students’ reasoned responses to them. Students develop independent points of view by synthesising information from a range of sources, and analysing how …
Unit 4 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3 Essential English
Unit 3 focuses on exploring different points of view presented in a range of texts and contexts. Students analyse attitudes, text structures and language features to understand a text’s meaning and purpose. They consider how perspectives and values are …
Unit 3 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE002
predicting meaning using text structures and language features
ACEEE002 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE015
interpreting structural and language features and aural and visual cues used in texts
ACEEE015 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE016
making inferences from content, text structures and language features
ACEEE016 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE032
explaining shifts in intonation and point of view, identifying the effect of language choices on an audience.
ACEEE032 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE045
explaining how texts use language to appeal to the beliefs, attitudes and values of an audience
ACEEE045 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE006
the ways text structures and language features are used to influence audiences, for example, image selection in websites, emotive language in speeches or films, stereotypes in video games and vocabulary choices in advertisements
ACEEE006 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE001
using structural and language features, for example, visual and aural cues to identify main ideas, supporting arguments and evidence
ACEEE001 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE011
using appropriate language, content and mode for different purposes and audiences, for example, in everyday, social, community or workplace contexts
ACEEE011 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE021
the use of language features such as tone, register and style to influence responses, for example, character monologues in film, fiction and video games.
ACEEE021 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE026
selecting text structures, language features and visual techniques to communicate and represent ideas and information
ACEEE026 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE012
using text structures and language features to communicate ideas and information in a range of mediums and digital technologies, for example, explaining workplace procedures, using navigation bars to create a web page, and developing a character’s back …
ACEEE012 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEE048
the use of mediums, types of texts, text structures and language features; for example, subjective and objective reporting in feature articles and current affairs programs, appeals to reason and emotion in persuasive texts and juxtaposition of images …
ACEEE048 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | Essential English | English | Senior secondary curriculum